NGO Says Dispatch of Troops Against Protesters Unjustifiable
SoldierS Should not have been deployed in Support of a warrant to arreSt land diSpute proteSterS in Kratie province in May&mdaSh;an operation that led to the killing of a 14-year-old girl by armed forceS, a JapaneSe human rightS group Said in a new report. The report SS='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-says-dispatch-of-troops-against-protesters-unjustifiable-4971/
Homes Razed to Stop ‘Secession,’ Officials Say
The homes of nearly 200 families living in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district were demolished yesterday and Monday after officials accused the residents of being involved in a secessionist plot, local officials and villagers said. District governor Chhe Chhiv said that authorities had demolished 191 homes ss='cambodia-color'>...
Trade Deficit Up 34 Percent On Last Year
Cambodia’s trade deficit in the first half of the year grew 34.31 percent compared with the same period in 2011, reaching $1.36 billion, according to data released by the Ministry of Commerce. Though revenues earned from exports grew 12.13 percent to about $2.50 billion, a growing ss='cambodia-color'>...
Trucking Companies Plagued by High Costs, Informal Payments
Despite growing exports, freight companies say profits are being hit because most firms still use old, inefficient trucks and are often forced to pay custom officials informal fees at border checkpoints and ports. Transportation costs in Cambodia are already some of the highest in the region, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Recent Development and Economic Outlook
The UN’s assessment suggests that Cambodia is one of the top five countries that have made significant progress toward meeting its MDGs by 2015. The poverty rate has dropped dramatically from 47.50 percent in 1993 to 34.70 percent in 2004 and 23 percent in 2011, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Villagers Say Homes Being Purposely Flooded
More than 120 families in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district sent a letter on Monday to the district governor asking for his help in addressing the flooding problem that has seen some of their homes collapse and has forced many to seek temporary accommodation elsewhere, villagers ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-say-homes-being-purposely-flooded-33317/
Astra Says Gold Exploration Project Still On
An Australia-based firm that announced a plan to explore for gold in Ratanakkiri province insisted Monday that its Cambodian venture is still on track, despite allegations made in an Australian newspaper that it has garnered investment based on false information. Astra Resources, which has companies incorporated ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/astra-says-gold-exploration-project-still-on-36194/
Tax revenue sees a 27 per cent jump
The Kingdom’s tax revenue increased 27.85 per cent in the first two months compared to a year earlier, a figure the opposition party said is low due to corruption and tax cheats. According to the data from the General Department of Taxation (GDT), total tax revenue ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032864735/Business/tax-revenue-sees-a-27-per-cent-jump.html
Ethnic-Vietnamese Cambodians Prevented From Voting in Kandal
SA&rSquo;ANG DISTRICT, Kandal province &ndaSh; Liv Yang Bin, 66, haS voted four timeS, but on Sunday he could not make it a fifth. Three timeS on Sunday, Mr. Yang Bin went to hiS local polling Station at a School here in Kandal province, but each time SS='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/ethnic-vietnamese-cambodians-prevented-from-voting-in-kandal-37225/
Report Says Quarter of Forests Have Been Cleared in 40 Years
Cambodia has lost almost a quarter of its forests in the past 40 years due to rapid development and China’s demand for timber, according to a new report released yesterday by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on the Greater Mekong Region. Looking at five countries in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Opposition Lawmakers Want ‘Social’ Land to Go to Farmers
Cambodian lawmakers have passed a new law on agriculture, but critics say the law does not go far enough to protect the country’s farmers. The law passed on Thursday evening, but not before debate at the National Assembly. During the debate opposition representatives called on the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rising Demand Boosts Organic Rice Industry
Production of Cambodian organic rice is rising rapidly as international demand for the product increases, experts said at a forum for growers and other in­dustry members held Tuesday at the Phnom Penh headquarters of agricultural NGO Cedac. “In the first six months of this year we’ve ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/rising-demand-boosts-organic-rice-industry-34216/
Cambodia's rice exports up 125 pct in first half of 2013
Cambodia has seen a sharp rise in the exports of milled rice in the first six months of this year thanks to increasing demand on international markets, an official said Wednesday. The figures, from the single window secretariat for facilitating milled rice exports, showed that the ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-07/10/c_132529640.htm
Initiative Encourages Private Rural Investment
Representatives from more than 90 Cambodian businesses gathered yesterday at the Council of Ministers building in Phnom Penh to hear about a new initiative that aims to encourage private sector investment in agriculture. The $55.6 million project is an extension of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/initiative-encourages-private-rural-investment-37899/
CPP denies fake Hun Sen recording, vote-rigging
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has denounced a recording posted on Facebook of Prime Minister Hun sen saying that his CPP had lost in last month’s fifth parliamentary election. someone had edited and re-recorded a speech he had performed a few weeks ago, said authorities. The ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=NGJmZWZmZmQ2OTd
Sokimex Orders Businesses Off Prime Real Estate
Dozens of business owners occupying more than 8,000 square meters of prime real estate behind Phnom Penh’s Wat Ounalom have been ordered to vacate their premises by the local conglomerate sokimex Group, an official from the firm said Wednesday. Though the firm declined to say what ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sokimex-orders-businesses-off-prime-real-estate-41237/
CNRP Sets Date for Mass Protests Against Election Results
The opposition CNRP announced Wednesday that it will hold a mass demonstration on september 7 against the preliminary results of what it claims was a rigged national election, one day before final results are expected to be released by the Constitutional Council of Cambodia. Unless the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-sets-date-for-mass-protests-against-election-results-41253/
Land Dispute Families Submit Complaint Over Snake Attack
Three families involved in a land dispute with a private company filed a complaint Monday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court accusing the company’s owner, businessman Khun sear, of waging an ongoing campaign of intimidation as he tries to force the families from their homes ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/land-dispute-families-submit-complaint-over-snake-attack-46605/
Global Fund Says World Mosquito Net Supplies Not Jeopardized
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TuberculoSiS and Malaria on ThurSday denied reportS that itS SuSpenSion of all contractS with two major moSquito net SupplierS found to have bribed Cambodian officialS would cauSe a Shortage in the worldwide Supply of the critical malaria deterrent, but SS='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/global-fund-says-world-mosquito-net-supplies-not-jeopardized-47676/
Cambodia's 2012 unemployment rate stands at 2.7 pct: survey
Unemployment rate in Cambodia stood at 2.7 percent in equivalent to 202,300 persons aged 15 or older in 2012, according to the first-ever Cambodia Labor Force survey Report released on Thursday. Conducted by the National Institute of statistics and the International Labor Organization (ILO), the survey ss='cambodia-color'>...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131128/cambodias-2012-unemployment-rate-stands-at-27-pct-survey